Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, double-minded people! James 4:8 (KJV) Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. I’m now going to refer you again to Scripture found in the Book of James: Matthew 5:8 (KJV) Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Proverbs 20:9 (KJV) Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? John 8:12 (KJV) Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. WE are walking in darkness and there’s only one way out: We need to be recognize that when we allow the world to keep us from these two commandments, which as you see by verse 40, incorporate ALL THE LAW…we don’t have clean hands or a clean heart. Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.ģ 8 This is the first and grea t commandment.ģ9 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.Ĥ0 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. Keep in mind, that we should always be in a state of repentence and always asking forgiveness…as humans we can sin without intending to sin…we can sin by omission when we neglect to do what’s right and what Jesus told us to do in: This cannot be achieved without giving your heart, mind and hands… “YOUR ALL” to our Lord and Savior who gave us “HIS ALL” Jesus the Messiah ~ Yeshua Hamashiach (Hebrew translation). REPENT is turning away from sin and truly regretting with every fiber of you heart and mind that you ever partook sin. There’s nothing we can do on our own to fix us! WE are sinners and even when we repent from our sins, it becomes a daily battle that we fight against the enemy and can only be won with the help of the Holy Spirit, who keeps us from repeating our sins. There’s only one way to clean our hands and purify our hearts and that is through our faith in Jesus! His righteousness covers all of our sins: this is the only way we can stand before our Father in Heaven. He also warned Timothy about false teachers. We know from the scriptures and 2 books in the New Testament that Paul wrote 2 letters to Timothy in order to hold him up in the Gospel and to give him strength with instruction and advice so he could lead the church and continue evangelizing (sharing the Gospel and planting the seeds of faith). Paul instructs in 1 Timothy 4:12 (KJV) Let no man despise thy youth but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. He was trying to follow the instructions given to him by Paul in regards to the church. In the New Testament scriptures, Timothy was an early Christian evangelist, the son of a Greek father and a Jewish mother, referred to by Paul as “my true son in the faith”.
#GIVE US CLEAN HANDS AND GIVE US PURE HEARTS FULL#
5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. I’m deeply concerned in today’s world that’s where most of the churches are …they deny the value of repenting and turning away from sin and instead they “preach or tickle” the ears of their congregations with what they want to hear, therefore they’re leading them to believe that as long as they say they’re Christians, that’s all that they have to do…that they don’t need to repent and that God is going to grant them every wish or desire including wealth.Ģ Timothy 4:2-5 (KJV) Preach the word be instant in season, out of season reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine. What does it mean to be double-minded? The definition of double minded according to the Miriam Webster Dictionary: 1 wavering in mind : undecided, vacillating a double– minded man unstable in all his ways 2 : marked by hypocrisy : insincere.Īs you can see from the language of James in this scripture, he wasn’t talking to true believers and followers of Jesus, he was obviously talking to people who were content in their sin or people who were trying to walk on both sides of the fence claiming to be followers of Jesus, but still hanging on to their sin and not wanting to change.
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